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New Year Makeovers

2016 has a lot to live up to after last year's successes with the hydro scheme and our Highlands and Islands Tourism Award. So far it has been a bit a bit of a damp squib though as we've been relentlessly battered by torrential rain and high winds for much of January. It is good …

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Tree Hugging

I for one am glad to see the back of January. It started badly with a major cock-up by Niall and I. We got our days of the week very muddled after Hogmanay (it wasn't the whisky, honestly...!) and convinced ourselves that a changeover was occurring on a Saturday rather than a Friday. Imagine our …

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Two Hundred Years Young

How apt that my last post was entitled ‘Slowing Down’ as I then ground to a halt with these little snippets of Torrisdale life. Not that life ever grinds to a halt here, far from it. We continued to have a busy autumn and the bookings really only petered out in November but it was …

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Spring

We are emerging slowly after a long and very wet winter. It has really been very mild but we have still been VERY grateful for the addition of central heating in the castle for the first time in it’s 200 year history. Niall’s new baby bio-mass boiler is doing a sterling job of heating not …